Rick Allen: “Mr. Burton has little regard for fairness. The biggest losers will be taxpayers. The Burton-led circus could cost…”

“Mr. Burton has little regard for fairness. The biggest losers will be taxpayers. The Burton-led circus could cost between $6 million and $12 million. That was over one year ago. Mr. Hunt's words have stood the test of time. As I understand the word now, we are now past the $6 million, headed toward $12 million and the gentlewoman from New York is right. One of the problems with this investigation is that it is so duplicative. We have done this in the Senate side. The Senate, for a mere, a mere $3 million of the taxpayers' money, has gone ahead and held 33 days of hearings and produced an 1100 page report. I quarrel with that report because it did not deal with campaign finance reform at all, but still they completed the investigation within one year. Here we are pushing $6 million, and we have had 13 days of hearings. And we have got no report to show for it, and the whole investigation is discredited.”